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Mission Insignia
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In this science/art activity, learners create an insignia or emblem for a planet exploration mission.

Pinhole Viewer
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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

Getting There!: Navigation and Trajectory
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In this two-part activity, learners map a navigation plan to get from Earth to Mars and back. In activity one, learners represent the orbital paths of Earth through dance and dramatic movement.

Eclipse Flipbook
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In this activity, learners make flipbooks of drawings showing the progression of a Total Solar Eclipse.

Constellation Tubes
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In this activity, learners will create their very own constellation.

Constellation Scope
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In this activity, young learners explore the basic shapes of constellations by making their own scope out of a cardboard tube and paper with pinpricks.

Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life
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“Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life” is a hands-on activity in which visitors imagine and draw an extreme environment beyond Earth, then invent a living thing that could thrive in it.

Kepler Paper Model
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In this activity, learners build a paper model of the spacecraft and photometer (telescope) used during NASA's Kepler Mission.

Postcards from Space
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Using information from the My Place in Space lithograph, learners write and/or draw a postcard to friends and family as if they had gone beyond the interstellar boundary of our Solar System, into the

Paint by the Numbers
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In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

Moon and Stars
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In this craft activity, learners create a string of cut-out moons and stars.

Breaking the Code: Mayan Math
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This is a lesson plan for an activity in which learners, playing the role of archeologists, use math concepts about number bases to decipher the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan document.

Space Elevator
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In this activity, learners imagine what the world might look like if we could build an elevator to space!